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Corporations are people

posted by Siedge on Whatever

I own a business, a small business mind you that has yet to turn a profit but I am a business owner and I've been working 60 hours a week trying to build it to be successful.

There is this very negative stereotype about corporations and how evil they are and how we need to regulate them like crazy.

Let's take a huge corporation like google, google is a company I despise. I won't give my reasons here because it's irrelevant. But because I dislike them, I have removed them from my life. I don't use google for anything. I even adblock youtube on my phone and computer. (Sorry content creators)

When google does something bad people want regulations, instead of removing them from their life.

When you have a bad friend you don't ask the government to make them stop doing something. You tell them stop and when they won't you end the friendship. Companies are people the more you support bad business practices the more you will see of them. Regulations just allow bad people to stay in business, when you make it so a business can't destroy itself you ruin the concept of a free market.

My point being corporations are people, and just like people instead of asking the government to make them a good friend, you find a better friend. Theres so many small businesses out there that believe in treating people right, but it's hard for them to grow as we put more and more regulations on things. Where I'm from they've made a new rule on licenses for crane operators over a certain weight limit. It's not some license that you go take some simple test for, it's thousands of dollars per person. This means most small crane businesses won't be afford to run anymore, and definitely new businesses won't be able to be started.

This is sorta just my stream of thoughts on the subject.

I own a business, a small business mind you that has yet to turn a profit but I am a business owner and I've been working 60 hours a week trying to build it to be successful. There is this very negative stereotype about corporations and how evil they are and how we need to regulate them like crazy. Let's take a huge corporation like google, google is a company I despise. I won't give my reasons here because it's irrelevant. But because I dislike them, I have removed them from my life. I don't use google for anything. I even adblock youtube on my phone and computer. (Sorry content creators) When google does something bad people want regulations, instead of removing them from their life. When you have a bad friend you don't ask the government to make them stop doing something. You tell them stop and when they won't you end the friendship. Companies are people the more you support bad business practices the more you will see of them. Regulations just allow bad people to stay in business, when you make it so a business can't destroy itself you ruin the concept of a free market. My point being corporations are people, and just like people instead of asking the government to make them a good friend, you find a better friend. Theres so many small businesses out there that believe in treating people right, but it's hard for them to grow as we put more and more regulations on things. Where I'm from they've made a new rule on licenses for crane operators over a certain weight limit. It's not some license that you go take some simple test for, it's thousands of dollars per person. This means most small crane businesses won't be afford to run anymore, and definitely new businesses won't be able to be started. This is sorta just my stream of thoughts on the subject.

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[–] Siedge [OP] 4 points (+4|-0)

Your argument is that educated consumers are a myth? I feel like that falls apart really quickly. When you argue that people are too stupid to figure things out on their own you will find people don't take to kindly too that.

Also that bottom argument of "The company pays it" is the issue and arguing that it's not a lot of money for a large company.. You are reinforcing everything I am arguing here. You are making my argument look really good. You are saying that small businesses and startups shouldn't exist. Everyone should just get a normal job with that mindset. That's not what a lot of people want to do, innovation happens when you allow as many people as possible into markets, regulations don't hurt big business they hurt small businesses.

[–] InnocentBystander 0 points (+1|-1)

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Your argument is that educated consumers are a myth?

Yes.

I feel like that falls apart really quickly.

How? You haven't refuted it. Tell me how consumers would have fixed Equifax, or how consumers prevented Microsoft fro getting a monopoly (hint, gov regulations made it so Microsoft bailed out Apple). There are an unlimited number of examples of large corps having to be reigned in by regulations because consumers don't care.

When you argue that people are too stupid to figure things out on their own

I never said that. I said they don't care. It's an example of 'Tragedy of the commons'.

argument of "The company pays it" is the issue and arguing that it's not a lot of money for a large company

That's not what I said, and that is not my argument.
My point was that cranes are very dangerous and lack of regulations leads to many bystander fatalities.

You are saying that small businesses and startups shouldn't exist.

No I did not. You're not being rational at this point.
Please try to stay calm, I don't have much patience for people who get offended by opposing views.